Jennifer Horn Brings Her Chair to the ZAMI NOBLA Leadership Table
About this episode
Jennifer Horn discusses her work focusing on Black same-gender-loving women and marginalized communities in the context of aging and caregiving.
Jennifer M-F Horn, LCSW, NMCFIT, is a licensed clinical social worker, researcher, educator, and U.S. Navy veteran whose scholarship and practice center Black same-gender-loving women and historically marginalized communities across aging, caregiving, and long-term services and supports. She received her Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Colorado State University–Pueblo, graduating Magna Cum Laude and inducted into Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology, and her Master of Social Work from Newman University, where she was inducted into the Pi Gamma Mu International Honor Society in Social Sciences. Jennifer is currently a Doctor of Social Work (DSW) candidate at Tulane University School of Social Work, with a projected graduation of May 2027. Her doctoral scholarship critically examines institutional responsibility and interrogates how resilience narratives can obscure structural harm — with particular attention to the communities ZAMI NOBLA serves. Jennifer has spent nearly two decades conducting community-rooted research on the lived experiences of older LGBTQIA2S+ adults, with the last six years heavily focused on older Black same-gender-loving women, with…
People in this episode
Host: Angela Denise Davis
Guest: Jennifer M-F Horn
Topics covered
- Black same-gender-loving women
- LGBTQIA2S+ adults
- community-rooted research
- mental health services
- aging
- caregiving
Keywords
- LCSW
- NMCFIT
- social work
- resilience narratives
- structural harm
- mental health
- community research
- LGBTQIA2S+
- caregiving
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: ZAMI NOBLA, Colorado State University–Pueblo, Newman University, Tulane University School of Social Work, Pikes Peak Area Council of Governments Area Agency on Aging
Books & works: The Gerontologist, LGBT Health, Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences
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